Stephen Phillips asks if scare stories will stifle nanotechnology at birth. If there is a road map for solving today's most pressing material and medical ills, chances are it will run straight...
Derek Burke, who fought anti-GM groups, counsels science to fight nanotechnology. Scientists must organise, speak up and use pressure-group tactics to fight the opponents of nanotechnology. A few...
Journalists and their trade, in print, on air and online, are under fire - and much of the criticism is deserved. Those who care about a quality press must join the global debate, says Ian Hargreaves...
Art deco infused fantasy and vitality into everything from music, fashion and product design to decorative arts, Hollywood films and city skylines across the globe. Ghislaine Wood reports. Art deco...
Egypt's top court has freed an intellectual after three years' imprisonment under anti-terrorist laws. But Saad Ibrahim's real crime, he tells Phil Baty, was to criticise the government. It...
I note that a study of students has found that many Italian professors are believed to be sadists, while others are afflicted with neuroses or worse. Indeed, but the students have failed to...
Hilda Brown ("Sex and the Hildabeast", THES , March 7) writes that "the five (Oxford) women's colleges played a heroic role in advancing higher education for women in the 20th century", but it is...
So the university access regulator has been set up to leaven the effete gene pool of Hooray Henries and Henriettas in our top universities with the odd bit of rough. Who cares? Those who've spent...
Oliver Letwin's contribution ("Why I... believe philosophy still matters", THES , February 28) shows the dangers of the widespread cynical attitude towards politics in Britain. A Popperian or...
Surely the first lesson to be drawn from the comparison of the endowment funds held by US and UK universities is that super-elite institutions utterly fail to deliver research and teaching in...
Your article on the transatlantic "endowment gap" surely misses the point. Most of the heavily endowed US universities mentioned are 19th-century private institutions that live or die by the success...
Steven Schwartz's article ("Can you pinpoint your boss?", THES , March 7) attempts to make the case for a more "business-like" model of university governance, but fails to convince. He states that "...
The responses to Steven Schwartz's article on the management of UK universities (Letters, THES March 14) were sadly predictable. They were also misguided in failing to recognise that universities are...
Roger Brown (Letters, THES , March 14) suggests that it may now be too late for any rational allocation of a stream of funding for research and scholarship. While it is to be hoped that this is not...
Advocates of the policy of taking cash from grade 4 departments to fund increases elsewhere fail to understand (or choose to ignore) the fact that the quality of research in a department rated 4a is...